Spectacles.



A. M. COX.

SPECTACLES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 12. 1916.

INVENTOR flrfih urMC'ox Patented May 15, 1917.

ZEZZTSFMW ATTORNEY ARTHUR M. COX, OF COMMERCE, OKLAHOMA.

SPECTACLES.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented! May as, 1917.

. Application filed October 12, 1916. Serial No. 125,241.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, -ARTHUR M. Cox, a citizen of the United States, residing at Commerce, in the county of Ottawa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spectacles, ofwhich the following is a'specification.

The present invention has reference generally to improvements in that class of inventions known as optics and more particularly relates to improvements in spectacles.

It is the primary aim and object of this invention to provide novel means for releasably holding the lenses of the spectacles in a horizontal plane above the eyes of the user, the improved spectacles belng particularly adapted for use by motorists because there is no strain on the eye and the lenses may be quickly swung into a raised or inoperative position without removing the spectacles from their accustomed position.

As an additional object, the invention contemplates the provision of novel means for normally retaining the lenses in a substantially rigid position'with respect to the frame. 1

Among the other aims and objects of the invention may be recited the provision of a device of the character mentioned with a view to compactness and inwhich the number of parts are few, the construction simple, ghe cost of production low and the efficiency igh.

Other objects as well as the nature, characteristic'features and scope of my invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims, forming a part of this specification. j

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inv which Figure 1 is a front elevationof my invention, showing the lenses in an operative position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the lenses in a raised or inoperative position.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section taken on line 3-3, looking in the direction in which the arrows point.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary front elegation of another form of my invention, an

Fig' 5 is a transverse section taken on line H of Fig. 4.

mediate the ends of the frame 1 and is ar ranged between the lens holders 3. The usual temples 6 are pivotally connected to the respective ends of the frame. A brace 7 has the respective ends connected to the lens holders 3 by means of a suitable fastening device 8 and by meansof this brace both of the lenses may be raised simultaneously.

In order to normally hold the lens holders in substantially rigid relation with respect to the frame, I have provided my improved retaining means, which in the present instance consists of a leaf-spring 9, one end of which is rigidly secured by means of a suitable fastening device 10 at a point adjacent the outer end of the frame, while the opposite end is bent to provide a catch 11 for engagement with the adjacent lens holders 3.

With a view toward providingfetficient means for maintaining the lenses in a raised or inoperative position, I have connected the respective ends of an elongated bracket 12 tov the front face of the nose-piece by means of a suitablefastening device 13. As is apparent the main portion of this bracket is arranged longitudinally of the nose-piece and in spaced relation therewith. Preparatory to the fastening of the bracket, I have slidably mounted the vertex 14 of a V- shaped support 15 therein, while the outer ends of the support are connected, as indicated by the numeral 16 to the brace 7.

In Figs. A and 5, I have shown another form of my invention. In this instance, instead of employing the V-shaped support 15, I have provided a substantially U-shaped support 17 and arranged the vertex or intermediate portion beneath the brace 7 as indicatedby the numeral 18. Thefree ends of the support are bent inwardly to provide lugs 19 which are arranged in the ends of a coil-spring 20, the outer convolutions or coils 21 of which are arrangedalso about the frame 1 so as to connect the support to will normally be exerted on thelsupport to "consequently automatically raise the lens holders when the retaining spring 9 is re-' leased. Y I

, "The operationof the presentinvention may be reviewed as follows:

By disengaging the catch 11 the lens hold ers 3 maybe raised until the vertex l t of the the lowerend thereof whereupon the lens holders may be released and supported in a horizontal position by the support. If it is desired to use the supports, it is only necessary to push the support 15 toward the upper end v of the bracket whereupon the" holders would be moved into a lowered posi .tion and engaged by the catch 11. As'will be seen from Figs. 4 and 5, when the catch 11 is released, the tension of the spring 20 is normally exerted on the support; 17,,

v which is in turn arranged behind the brace 7 and automatically raises the brace and con sequently the lens holders=3.

In order to return theframe to an oper-I ative position it is'nec'ssary to 'moverthe lens" holders 3 oward the frame so that one of themwould. be engaged by the catchll. ,I As many changes could be made; in the above construction and many apparently widely difiereht embodiments of'this 1mm tion could be madewithout departing from the scope thereof, 1t isintended that all matter contained in the above description or vshown in the accompanying-drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not ina" limiting sense. It is also to'be understood moved simultaneously, means-for retaining the lenses in an operatlve position against ;tion,- what I claim and desire to' secure by, Letters Patent is:

, cludin claims is intendedto' cover all of thegeneric language,- "might besaid to tween. 4 a

Having thus 1. A device of the character for bracing the lenses so that theymay be fully described inven-j ers in t n Pr o have finova ly holding thelenses infla' raised 'or 'inoperativepos tion.- JjIL- .2 A device of the character-described comprising a spectacle frame consisting ofa bar'having its 0 posite ends curveddownwardly, legs-hol er's' pivotallyconnected to.

the ,bar, adjacent its curved ends and adapted-to lie in operative "positi on against said curved ends, a nose; piece; depending ffromthe-ibar. and lying between the lens holder'syme'ans connecting said lensjhold-l ers'together-so that they maybe moved in' support 15 slides in the bracket 12 towardz' unison," 'anfldmeans between the nose piece."

so thatthey may: be. moved. simultaneously", means for retaining thej lens holders in an operative position against the framey'a sub-[ stantially U-shaped supportarranged ad ,3.-Ag'device" of he character described including: fa. supporting fraine, lens holders pivoted thereto lenses {receivable inflthe holders,'m ea'1'1fs, or bracing-thelens holder'sjacent the bracing-means, and-resilient}; means y for receiving*- -the support connected 1 to the support=andjtolthe;nose-piece so as to exert a tension on'Jthe bracing means tofl automatically swing -the lens iholder's into;

a raised or inoperative position} when the firetai'nin 'me'ansisreleased f 4;;A evice of,thcharacter' "jdescribed:

1 comprising a spectacle frame" consisting of) a bar having itsjgpposite endseurved, "lens holders piVotalIy- 'c nnecte'd to the ,,baradj--.

j acejnt its curved- "ends and'fadapted-to 1am. operative position "against; said cs a nose. pieceprojecting. from th lying between the-*lens"holders,-..

r en s s bar-gan a s nses 'nec'tmg said le n 's --'holders together sothat I "they mayv be moved in :'un1s'on;,-:= an armthat the language used in the -following:.

pivotally' connectedto the; nose piece and in .c,onstant engagement-with said f last men-1. 'tioned connecting means resilient. mea s-associated. with sa d arm and normall'yztendin t0 rai e. s idi arm. hereby t lv 18 ho der's are moved to" an inoperative. pomtion, and means. for retaining .the' lensi holdf i an operative position relat veito fthe framdescribed in-j a frame; lenses pivoted jtthereto, a] nose-p1ece connected to the. frame, means Witnesses:

In testimony whereofI afli x my: signature Witnesses; 

